The Vatican cancels the Corpus Christi mass due to the Pope’s health problems

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The mass on the occasion of Body of Christ and his traditional procession has been canceled due to the impossibility of Pope Francis to celebrate it due to persistent knee pain, which prevents him from walking and standing for a long time, the Vatican reported.

“Because of the limitations imposed on the pope by the gonalgia and to the specific liturgical needs of the celebration, the Holy Mass and the procession will not be celebrated with the Eucharistic blessing of the feast of Corpus Christi,” the Vatican reported in a note.

In past celebrations, such as the mass for the feast of Pentecostes On June 5, or the canonization of several Blesseds, Pope Francis was present in the front row sitting in a wheelchair and read the homily prepared for the occasion, while the Mass was officiated by Cardinal John the Baptist King, Dean of the College of Cardinals.

On this occasion, it has been decided to definitively cancel this mass that Francisco before the pandemic used to celebrate in some parish on the Roman outskirts.

The problems in the right knee also caused the trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan scheduled for early July on the advice of doctors, due to his knee pain, the Vatican reported today.

The doctors advised the pope not make efforts so as not to compromise the results of the knee therapies that began a few weeks ago and above all based on infiltrations and rest.

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Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, stressed that the trip has been “postponed and not cancelled”, affirmed that improvements are being seen in the evolution of knee pain and that “he feels less pain”, but that “doctors have explained that excessive effort could make him return to the previous situation and not recover the advantages achieved so far”.

A few days ago, during the meeting with the Italian bishops, Francis confessed to them that he did not want to have surgery and that he will continue with the infiltrations to cure his ailment, as revealed by the newspaper “Il Messagero”.

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